DMD under 64-bit Windows 7 HOWTO

[Adam Wilson]

On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:50:46 -0700, Sean Cavanaugh  
<WorksOnMyMachine at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/25/2013 8:24 PM, Manu wrote:
>> I  might just add, that if you have Visual Studio installed (which I
>> presume many Windows dev's do), then you don't need to do ANYTHING.
>> DMD64 just works if VS is present.
>>
>> I didn't do a single thing to get DMD-Win64 working. And it's working  
>> great.
>>
>> You should make sure this is clear at the top of any wiki entry.
>>
>> Perhaps a future push to convince Walter to port DMD-Win32 to
>> COFF/WinSDK aswell might be nice ;)
>> Win32 is still an important platform for many (most?) users.
>>
>>
>
> under VS2012 I had to edit sc.ini to point directly to the linker:
>
> LINKCMD64=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio  
> 11.0\VC\bin\amd64\link.exe
>
> and in visuald add the win8 sdk lib path to the lib directories:
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Lib\win8\um\x64
>
> And from there it just worked
>
> The other variables the stock sc.ini uses are only set if you run  
> vsvars32.bat (and the newer batch files only enable 1 platform at a time  
> instead of all of them which can trip people up trying to do everything  
> from a single command line)
>

Ok, so how did you get VisualD to not use OPTLINK?

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